Psalms 59
1 God, save me from my enemies! Protect me from those who want to attack me!
Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of It title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.
2 Rescue me from men who want to do what is wicked, men who are murderers!
Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
3 Look! They are waiting to kill me! Fierce men have gathered to assault me. Yahweh, they are doing that even though I have not done what is wrong!
For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:
4 It is not because I have committed any sin [against them] that they run and get ready to attack me.
Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.
5 Yahweh my God, commander of the armies of heaven, the one we Israelis [worship], arise and punish the [ungodly/heathen people of] all the nations; do not be merciful to those [wicked people] who have (acted treacherously toward/secretly planned to harm) us.
Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.
6 They return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs [SIM] as they prowl around this city.
They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
7 They loudly say terrible things; they say [MTY] many things that [injure people like] [MET] swords do, but they think, “No one will [RHQ] hear us!”
Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?
8 But Yahweh, you laugh at them. You (scoff at/ridicule) the [people of the pagan] nations.
But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
9 God, I have confidence in you because you are very strong; you are my refuge.
I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:
10 Because you love me, you will come to save me; you will allow me to watch while you defeat my enemies.
My God, his mercy shall prevent me.
11 But do not kill them [immediately] in order that my people will not forget [how you punished them]! [Instead], Lord, [you who are like a] shield [that protects us] [MET], scatter them by your power, and [then] defeat them.
God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:
12 Because what they say [MTY] is sinful, allow them to be trapped for being proud. Because they are [always] cursing and telling lies,
For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,
13 because you are angry, get rid of them; destroy them completely in order that people will know that you rule over us, your Israeli people, and that you rule over all the earth.
When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and all the ends of the earth.
14 My enemies return each evening, snarling like [vicious] dogs as they prowl around this city.
They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
15 They roam around, searching for food; and if they do not find enough, they growl.
They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.
16 But [as for me], I will sing about your power; [every] morning I will sing joyfully about your faithfully loving [us]. I will sing about how you protected me when I was [very] distressed.
But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.
17 God, you are the one who enables me to be strong; you are my refuge; you faithfully love me.
Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: my God my mercy.
